The evening world. Newspaper, August 17, 1916, Page 3

dt Epidemic Is Com Under Control Y’'S DEATH TOTAL 92 Down to 14 tine Proves Etfective A decrease ¢ forded tos Canes of infantile pa ° has been 6 wtead oe tr Week in the epiten ndoott the Health Department are aut pte Provided the pre mild keep) Up It is believed the dea and new howe of y # to-day, com rday bearing Borvete tod Brooklyn Ww ‘ Manhattan wo 8 Bronx . ° F] ? Queens ...... ee 5 Richmond ..... ae 0 Totals a2 ™“ NEW CASKS Brooklyn 40 “ Manhattan 0 “a Bronx .. ATs) u 28 tal deaths to date tal cases to date.. as been gradu. were reported. ITSELF OUT.” / New York. it and the “This certainly s Manhattan, way southward and then in end of it in Brooklyn. deaths. Dr, Billings said the Canadian red brought to etary of the nurses who were ot this country by Si Treasury McAdoo after deral Ly migration officials had deported them under the Alien Labor Law would reach New York to-night. umually thorough cleaning up and t found between milk and poliomyelitis. ‘One of the ques One trial will confirm your confidence in our reputation, standing and dependability, Harris Glasses —if glasses are needed —are priced at $2.00 or more. peas asd ui, ate em S. Ave 4 Ny nh Aves. 2pm ot 4065 Nicholas Sin i 7B wi Kiva. BE Brockive: (O08 Breas Ot., neat to Becell, Newark. ersey's Stringent Quarane J hope for Federal and state thet the situation is eetting under | penetatede © ther co-ordination sand Rew canes Will have fallen off to much QM extent by the beginning of Rep 1 give adequate pry Geennan opened the con sistent Surgeon G lember that there will be no difficulty About opening the public wobec Bept. 25 {Following are the tabiew of deatha twith| The conferees agr showed more than 11,000 cases of in in the United States but sald that outside of New York Connectiout situation practically was Aside from the cases in the vicinity of New York City there was that the trans mission of the disease could be traced | to the Metropolis. them showed that their Meurer) fantile paralya anes In persons olde The exact figures from thirty-etght States showed fined to cities by a were reported on Jarma tions were offered regarding the pos- The scientific problems of its study and prevention will be later conferences, Few sugges- Tho decline in the number of casen| “P!6 origin. since the high mark r one day was reached on Aug. 3. One week ago to-day 175 cases discussed at certificate to factlitate travel of chil- dren was suggested. Moat of the speakers thought there was little necessity of a quarantine by r States against PIDEMIC BELIEVED “BURNING Deputy Health Commissioner Bill- Angs, speaking this afternoon for Commissioner Emerson, who is at- tending the Federal conference on in- Mantile paralysis which opened ifn Washington to-day, said the indica- tions were that the infantile paralysis epidemic was “burning itself out" in| bia officials are aiding. having child traveliers inspected upon | the Oregon Washington delegates said notification by elers from/ Upon the question of ral!road com- fates reported success of a co-opera- « pe tive method, in which British Colum- | “Dr. Frost of the Government Health Service has advanced the theory that the disease spreads only among persons who are susceptible to ‘burns out," he said, ne to be the case in Brooklyn, and the epidemic apptr- ently is running a simil.r course in the health officers of those States and British Columbia | was made of suspected children. Connecticut's delegates eald thirty- w York children | “In Brooklyn the disease started | near the Gowanus Canal, worked its north- erly direction, describing an are, un- it got around to the East New ‘ork and Germantown districts, where it now is prevalent. I believe those last two districts will see the of New Jersey | in 175 distric’ ew Jersey | | Grace Parker is the and sad the epidemic was spreading | over the State showed 6,653 “As for Manhattan, it started on the lower east side, It seems to be ‘burning itself out’ there. As to the effect the weather has on the epi- demic, we do not know much, There ie no question, however, that heat and humidity increase the number of === y the Health Depart- ment Is that dogs, cats and other ant- susceptible to infantile Such animais are subje to one form of paralysis, said Dr, Bil- . but not to poliomyelitis, QUARANTINE PROVES EFFECTIVE. Health officials who aro w York fighting the epdeme re- ceived reports to-day that the quaran- tine established in Now Jersey seems to be operating with good results The quarantine regulations vary in mals are not New York City {s undergoing an un- pure food laws are being rigidly en- forced as the result of the epidemic, sald Dr. Billings. Officials of the Bureau of Epidemiology of the Health | different parta of tho State. Department are studying the relation between milk and infantile paralysis hey have selected a district in the ronx for this study, lp to the pres- nt time, however, no relation has been towns children years of age are not | even though they » {available minute at Camp Inkowa, | ting in the Saturday | night council, and when they left they | under sixteen permitted to enter, jeven particip ons Which has been . Rumson, Long Children under sixteen years of age Y pass through these New J towns, but they are not permitted to ranch, White House, Three Bridges, Higginsviie and Blooms- Adults) may | Means bro health certificate dren nor adults are main in German Valley and Raritan, + and Bedford, coy TO AID PARALYSIS VICTIMS. Contribations Se neither chil- permitted to re- for Purchase of Convalescents Evening World tho following contribution: purchase of bracea for who are convalescent after at- tacks of infantile ol Wk Stans Revtins ant Colors Hiverntde ih $25 The contributions he 0 for ired . Nef to the com eo TES BVENING WURLD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, MBALYSIS CASES. EXPERTS SEEKING ‘Inkowa and Kechuwa, Twin Jersey y Camps, CONTINUE TO DROP: PARALYSIS CURB Develop lde OUTLOOK BRIGHTER beds ae alth Officials See Fresh In AaniNng THe MAING Problem of Healthful, Clean Out-of-Doors As- sociation Made Possible by Miss Anne Morgan and Mrs. E. H. Harri- man, No Charity, Philanthropy or Subsidy Connected With the Enterprise, Which Is Camping De Luxe, More Comfort- able Than Summer Hotel Life. By Nixola Greeley Smith, Tnkowa ts the answer, the reply is Kechuw: The answer to what? assall the camp. NO CHARITY THERE; GIRLS PAY THEIR WAY. Mrs. FE. H. Harriman has given the Use for four years of the mile-and-a- half of lake front which constitutes the camp property There is no charitg, no philant no subsidy connected with Camp Inkowa, Its members are successful business women who earn from $15 to $25 a week, Board in the camp is $9 a week, So every girl who there for a vacation has the com | fortable feeling that she pays her way fully, ‘This rate includes all the tivities of camp life—canoeing, moon- light trips about the lake in the club launch, bus rides and long-distance | hikes. The girls who joined Camp Inkowa last year invited their young men friends to visit them over Sunday and | the visitors were quartered ‘at hotels| and boarding houses about Green wood Lake, But they spent every found ther vives in the very unusual situation of wishing that they had| been born girls. It was too late to do anything about | , of course, But they did the next | th best thing. On leaving they said to Miss Morgan, or Miss Wetmore, or Miss Parker, whoever happened to bid them god-speed: “But why can't you have a camp like this for us And so this year Camp Kechuwa | happened and fulfilled the dream of these envious young men, Kechuwa therhood, and Inkowa, by the way, means trustworthiness, Both are Indian words and splendid names to express, us the camps themselves express, a new clean spirit of com- radeship between young mep and young women Architects, doctors, lawyers, book keepers, bank clerks, young business men of many kinds are the guests of Kechuwa, Next week twenty-eight young men from the National City Bank will begin their vacations there. inkowa = includes young women teachers, stenographers, librarians, private secretaries and girls doing clerical work for insurance companies and other similar busin institu | tons. e--r- Se _ Wess TRIAL In bloomers mmissioner Whittle hh -of-doors ine way and has given the club permis to hold its winter coun built for such ocea- sions In Van Cortlandt Park “New Yorkers do not walk enough,” Miss Parker told m the fun that might be had if New York Unless, of course, you are a man, and then threes about woodland domain Why, to. pretty young business man or woman in New York The answer to the vacation serious and besetting dif- culty which so many young men and women bave to face In New York, the diffe ulty expressed in the query, “How can I make nice friends? New York! What shall I do about it? The answer, too, to the Adirondacks. or any other large city. blem and to the more ry church, for insta her its own ‘group of ‘hikers’ and star walk to Inwood, the only place about New York which has nat~ ural woods left » comfortable tq y in many summer hotels thpicks and you would be I am so lonely in nh assure you you was served in the lodge, the argest camp building, and ax we ate demand for outdoor life for participation in winter and summer sports by those who can't afford to belong to country clubs, Now what are They sound a little bit like Pullman car names | belong to neighboring camps; one for young women, four cases of paralysis there had been | Men, whose tents are pitched on the pal shore of Greenwood Lake, directly tra aced to New York and that |N. J., a mile or more from Sterling Fore Inkowa is a self-supporting camp ae self-supporting women. Anne Morgan is President of its Committee of Manag Wetmore Treasurer, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt is another ment Camp Director, and presides as Big Chief at the jcouncils which are held every Saturday night in the ( The report of Dr. Emerson, Health | cular clearing in the dense woods in which the Officer of New York, cases since the outbreak of the ep! the metropolis, with a mortality rate of over\ 2 There is not a case, he said, among the 30,000 children confined In charitable institutions of the city, The |. has been most prev- alent in the less congeted boroughs. Inkowa?” [asked Miss Parker, though [ thought I knew, for the Inkowa girls the woods name for their pidina, which means in- Inkowa and » IT have been in social work Do they not? ny years,” Miss Parker an- e other for sala an elephant," came to New Yor! weighs perhaps 115 pounds. friends and no opp So [ kne porting girl tn r called to the eager, smiling, could t assemblage ‘ouncil Ring, a elr- Tnkowa girls have made nid th of them was tucked decorously under baie hs the dining room bloomed above bloomered beneath it. amp Inkowa and Four girlish voices called tremulous- “T want to be when dubious glance on ht after another, camp loses mone ;around the lake expenses the se opy.| ond and does not be- gin to make anything until the third, Inkowa's fl x made $200, We st on the amount tt cost to establish the who comes more subsidized t ymmer ho’ sil BE Ua AA INFANT MORTALITY wr worrr § Stern Brothers West 42d and West 43d Streets ‘ » bareback rider NEED OF SUCH CAMPS FOR GLEAN SOCIAL INTERCOURSE. counsellors of the | who assist Miss Parker In the camp » to the diMeulty Inkowa Club clean, healthy administrati Miss Parker When I spent the one horse need be ridden “Man Trask has lovely re T wanted t@ ask her whether she Roing to bo a white hor nded, and Miss Parker brought and brought me but purring self. You put young imen av amps Sv near to cach other” “How dare you not do it? the girla to the: ir fe to an uncomfortat consciousness by asking them to give me their sk: was SOME DESPITE PARAL Reports of twenty-seven additional r infantile paralysis in the , exclusive of those in New York scelved by the State De- SHOCIALION of ) and women » floor, hissing and | yell Lever hear the possibility iting, of course, alth between 6 P.M Was the first now total 1,160. apply, and yo wrted since last night owing requi pite the rava, mort New Yor r last month than In any July tn| of the eighty-six of every 1,000 | fants. In the gre i mortality rate was “Not what you } But what you « And this is the Inkowa | wed by eraft w r girls who wish vut of every Sixty-nine New Cases Is encamped Miss Chinquilla part Cheyenne s to enrapture what you think, what wou say, what you do. |THE REQUIREMENTS KOWA CAMPERS. on the Inkowa la 8 part: Mohawk ming follows. n officer of membership Camp Inkowa You must have + must have miles in two wee You must know a fifteen wild f You must know the » take swimming le » standard book on the mermaids whom I discoye Inkowa has @ blanke tennia court Gaturday end Sunday are ‘at 1 approached Camp ‘inkowa, Other | and another in Prospect Wark, les! Hefore Pushing HOME (via Pe epture of th ry * Kew Ma spon ‘Trieste unt! Austria ack of the It © Hehting for ¢ Yeveneeo have been ba AMO ONDE Boe a aren tn progress The | are employed tn cavern tainmide In taking: Batate the I jaion, the Austrians Italians merely crew HWERLIN, Aug. | Sayville A airmen on po lows: the “Think of all o Kot to- d from its own have been self-sup- life. When [ first T passed a very iso T had no tunities for out- Leader Jobn H. Me w York wants, One| to the Senate, ahah wernt Rrooklyn politneal circles attached f AIRING | significance to a further statment by ator Cullen, that he had been urged np life|not to bring about a party diviston, best there is in the] It was sald that influence had been ; that it restores the quality of} brought to bear from agination stunted by work ina elty, done of imm self-supporting ting women/| that caused the pread need, Miss | mucr concern. the ide: Mrs. EB. H. ———— she heard of the Drowned Man the first year, pays Ahak ar Feta ars old, a gurd Ninet; -olghth eared ee: | Simei pay 6 per t year amp $8,000—and no REFUSE TO STRIKE AT B16 WINCHESTER PLANT An Attempt at Ni to Induce the Men ti ITALIANS HOLD UP Develop Ideals of Young Men and Women DRIVE TO TRIESTE 10 nw way STRAIGHTEN LINES Seek to Capture Positions North 1rthe for the el@bt-hour dey wate machinie Upper leonse can be + «betwee Goria White the oe is regarded aa im here probably wil | OSTRICH JUMPS OFF LINE AND MAKES GETAWAY | the Carso Plateau bet tan tro am by recon the way to Triest on the moun Disappearance ane offered to let kun crews surrender trians Mourished a mandolin tn looked a second The Italian infantry urged and bayoneted the whole gun |, passengers in wrved for women trav. 17 (by wipele yther raid by {tions behind the Ital- ) line In the Isongo region t# an- Austro-Hungarian jiralty atatement to-day olling alone. of screams They dhased the main deck, wh dd kicked one ma was lowered and went to the r counts the ostrich still “An Austro-Hungarian | aeroplane squadron on the night | of Aug. 14-16 most suc: bombarded a@ hostile outh of the Isonz tary establishments at Vermigiiano and Selz. were obtained and fires were ob- swerved to break out, All the aero- planes returned undamaged heiped the} spite of the most violent shellin, ry possible a that was ed nt in North ¢ follow his travelling compan Into her slip with baie mournful dirge Infant Rash’ and Chafing Quickly Healed by the vse, & in ia / CULLEN DROPS FIGHT AGAINST FITZGERALD community hikes; | Brooklyn Senator Will Let Con- gressman Have Clear Way for Renomination at Primary. A threatened breach in the Demo- “Who originated the idea of Camp] cratic ranks of Kings County was healed to-day when State Senator Thomas H, Cullen announced that he would not oppose the renomination of Congressman Jobn J. Fitzgerald in the forthooming primary. ‘This decision followed a conference with ey, when Sen- ator Cullen said that his claims upon | the party had been recognized and that he would remain loyal, as in the, what n self-sup. |Past. He will stand for renomination Read what this trained nurse says: 1, used Sykes’ Comfort. Powder on this baby for rash and chafing with the very best results. cooling and healing to the most del T have used many other powders but have never found any- thing to heal skin ike Comfort Pdwder.”—Grace E. nares, M. nchentor, crea, iter baby’s bat! ew keep the’ skin healthy and free from sore- wee a slain falcon Powder, but a ishly med! Preparation un- equalled for wareery, and pies lh g and prevent chafing, eczema, infants’ prickly heat, and irritation by eruptive diseases and At Drug and Dep't Stores 2ie., ‘The COMFORT POWDER CO., Boston, Mase. Washington Many petitions were circulated in his the self-supporting | behalf and he had developed strength self-suppe uld meet a wide uses, to heal Weniloe: Se ecalding, use for four years! the body of a man found yesterday erally speaking. 4) oft the Battery was identified to day Lindsay, fifty er, of No, 235 treet ‘owned is not known. SSS ere need feel any an If she were go- Ss ne Number of deaths no fatalities haying sof the epidemic, ity or for the ||| ‘ity, was | department. During ||) 1,000 deaths. Jersey. | J, Aug. 17.—Sixty- | ll HE of Infantile paralyats the State Departn making 1,904 case Twenty-four of the | ||| In Newark Hi and plain blue weaves Semi-Annual Clearance OF J Aean: Baie 8 FM: To-day and Friday Men’s Sack Suits at $15.00 Values up to $25.00 uits offer a wide selection in single-breasted two and three button m models, of neat fancy check 33 to 46 chest. The Custom Tailoring Department will close out, beginning To-day, its Spring and Summer wooleny and will Make to Measure. Men’s Sack Suits at $25 One-quarter, half or full lined, Regular prices $35.00 to 40,00 An additional charge of 10% for sizes over 44 chest.